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11-06-2014, 04:26 PM
Unanimous Consent: Jeff Sessions Wins Re-Election Uncontested
by Matthew Boyle - 6 Nov 2014
One of the biggest unreported election night stories is how a southern gentleman coasted back into a U.S. Senate seat completely unchallenged.
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) won re-election on Tuesday evening by unanimous consent from Alabamians. Nobody challenged him in either that state’s Republican primary or in the general election which just wrapped in November.
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And it’s worth exploring why Sessions went uncontested, as he’s in line to become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and will thus wield enormous influence over the direction of the GOP heading into the next presidential cycle and beyond.
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The way he does it is he frames the issue through the lens of more than just border security. He fights amnesty on that front, and wins. But, more importantly, he battles tooth and nail over what he calls the “Masters of the Universe” immigration wishes—from CEOs, inside-the-beltway politicians, and big labor unions, among others with secondary motives looking for either cheap labor, more Democratic voters, more members, or having something else in mind than American workers’ best interests. He flips the entire argument by Democrats and the Institutional Left that Republicans and conservatives are in the tank of special interests by consistently and aggressively pointing out that what all Democrats—and some Republicans—want to do with immigration is, in fact, all a big favor to those special interests.
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“Nobody runs against Jeff Sessions, because even symbolic candidates figure it's not worth the effort. Sessions is that popular in Alabama,” Tucker Carlson, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, added in an email. “What's amazing is that he's not much of a panderer, or even an especially good speaker. People like Sessions because he's principled, which is kind of refreshing to see.”
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During those floor speeches, Sessions looks for ways to connect whatever issue he’s fighting for at the moment with the grassroots activists crucial to his causes—and with ordinary Americans whom he’s trying to win over.
Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham said Sessions’ win without any challenger whatsoever is because he opposes amnesty for illegal aliens and rejects the “Big Donor class demands” from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. It’s a serious challenge for the Republican Party moving forward: Reject the big donors, and win the voters? Or reject the voters and win the big donors? Sessions has argued for years that the GOP should abandon the donor class to focus its policies and messaging on connecting with voters. His argument is that if Republicans win over voters by fighting for just causes in policy and political battles, rather than pandering to high-dollar donors for campaign cash, they will win big-picture elections and get America back on the right track.
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“Senator Jeff Sessions for all appearances is a man of good ole southern up bringing, a man that is Alabama, and a Patriot,” Green said in an email. “Jeff Sessions thinks first about America, not Jeff Sessions. He works as if he is in Washington to do a job that honors country. His actions are of someone that loves being a boy from Alabama and a Man that is American. He works as if he believes in Americans and America, not against them, not against our best interest. He is consistently conservative in his policies, his compass is true and his course straight. Senator Session's stiff spine and bold voice is louder then dozens combined in the chamber of wimps in DC.”
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More: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/06/Unanimous-Consent-Jeff-Sessions-Wins-Re-Election-Uncontested
by Matthew Boyle - 6 Nov 2014
One of the biggest unreported election night stories is how a southern gentleman coasted back into a U.S. Senate seat completely unchallenged.
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) won re-election on Tuesday evening by unanimous consent from Alabamians. Nobody challenged him in either that state’s Republican primary or in the general election which just wrapped in November.
...
And it’s worth exploring why Sessions went uncontested, as he’s in line to become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and will thus wield enormous influence over the direction of the GOP heading into the next presidential cycle and beyond.
...
The way he does it is he frames the issue through the lens of more than just border security. He fights amnesty on that front, and wins. But, more importantly, he battles tooth and nail over what he calls the “Masters of the Universe” immigration wishes—from CEOs, inside-the-beltway politicians, and big labor unions, among others with secondary motives looking for either cheap labor, more Democratic voters, more members, or having something else in mind than American workers’ best interests. He flips the entire argument by Democrats and the Institutional Left that Republicans and conservatives are in the tank of special interests by consistently and aggressively pointing out that what all Democrats—and some Republicans—want to do with immigration is, in fact, all a big favor to those special interests.
...
“Nobody runs against Jeff Sessions, because even symbolic candidates figure it's not worth the effort. Sessions is that popular in Alabama,” Tucker Carlson, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, added in an email. “What's amazing is that he's not much of a panderer, or even an especially good speaker. People like Sessions because he's principled, which is kind of refreshing to see.”
...
During those floor speeches, Sessions looks for ways to connect whatever issue he’s fighting for at the moment with the grassroots activists crucial to his causes—and with ordinary Americans whom he’s trying to win over.
Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham said Sessions’ win without any challenger whatsoever is because he opposes amnesty for illegal aliens and rejects the “Big Donor class demands” from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. It’s a serious challenge for the Republican Party moving forward: Reject the big donors, and win the voters? Or reject the voters and win the big donors? Sessions has argued for years that the GOP should abandon the donor class to focus its policies and messaging on connecting with voters. His argument is that if Republicans win over voters by fighting for just causes in policy and political battles, rather than pandering to high-dollar donors for campaign cash, they will win big-picture elections and get America back on the right track.
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“Senator Jeff Sessions for all appearances is a man of good ole southern up bringing, a man that is Alabama, and a Patriot,” Green said in an email. “Jeff Sessions thinks first about America, not Jeff Sessions. He works as if he is in Washington to do a job that honors country. His actions are of someone that loves being a boy from Alabama and a Man that is American. He works as if he believes in Americans and America, not against them, not against our best interest. He is consistently conservative in his policies, his compass is true and his course straight. Senator Session's stiff spine and bold voice is louder then dozens combined in the chamber of wimps in DC.”
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More: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/06/Unanimous-Consent-Jeff-Sessions-Wins-Re-Election-Uncontested